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- Title
Serial verb reduplication in the Mabia languages of West Africa.
- Authors
Bodomo, Adams; Abubakari, Hasiyatu
- Abstract
This paper introduces and discusses the notion of Serial Verb Reduplication (SVR) in two Mabia languages of West Africa, Dagaare and Kusaal. The authors show that the phenomenon of SVRs, though under-represented in the literature, has a wide scope occurrence in natural language usage within serializing languages. Theoretically, two lexical semantic notions: semantics of verbs (verb meaning) and pluraction, are advanced to explain the intricacies of the syntax and semantics of SVRs. The paper identifies two groups of SVRs: canonical SVRs and pluractional SVRs and proposes that semantically bleached verbs can only be reduplicated in pluractional benefactive and causative SVRs in these languages.
- Subjects
SEMANTICS; REDUPLICATION (Linguistics); LEXICAL access
- Publication
Legon Journal of the Humanities, 2022, Vol 33, Issue 2, p29
- ISSN
0855-0050
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4314/ljh.v33i2.2